ACADEMY-INSTITUTE AWARDS ARTS PRIZES

By The Associated Press

Published: May 21, 1987

The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters presented three of its highest honors yesterday to the violinist Isaac Stern, the painter Isabel Bishop and the writer Jacques Barzun.

The awards were given at the academy's annual meeting in upper Manhattan, at which two new members were inducted into the academy and 11 new members were added to the institute.

More than 30 other awards and prizes totaling $500,000 were given, including the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, which was won by James Ingo Freed.

The membership of the academy and institute includes many of the nation's leading painters, sculptors, architects, composers and writers and was established to foster, assist and sustain an interest in literature, music and the fine arts.

Mr. Stern received the academy and institute's Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts in recognition of his campaign to save Carnegie Hall. The two Gold Medals awarded yesterday were given to Mr. Barzun for Belle Lettres and Criticism and to Miss Bishop for Painting.

In addition to the new members to the academy and institute, Woody Allen, the film maker, was named an honorary member. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Soviet poet; Edna O'Brien, the Irish novelist, and Renato Guttoso, the late Italian painter, were named honorary foreign members.

Robert Motherwell, the painter, and Milton Babbitt were formally inducted into the academy as full members by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the chancellor of the academy.

The new members of the institute are: Renata Adler, Robert Bly, Amy Clampitt, Robert Coover, Robert Creeley, Frank Gehry, Emily Hahn, Anne Poor, James Rosenquist, Gary Snyder and Cy Twombly.